Tuesday, August 19, 2014

A New Collection at JSTOR: JSTOR Hebrew Journals

With a minimum of 40 titles, the Hebrew
Journals Collection draws from an interdisciplinary range of titles
published primarily in Hebrew. The collection is the first on JSTOR to
be released in a non-Roman alphabet, creating an essential resource for
scholars in Hebrew worldwide. Top disciplines include Jewish Studies,
Language & Literature, and Archaeology, with journals drawn from
leading organizations such as the Bialik Institute, the World Union of
Jewish Studies, and the Israel Antiquities Authority. The JSTOR platform
has been adapted in ways that now support the requirements of the
Hebrew language. These include right-to-left reading, searchability in
Hebrew, and journal metadata in both Hebrew and English when provided,
including author names, titles, and tables of contents.

Many of the titles relate to antiquity and some were already in the JSTOR Jewish Studies collection The full current list follows

<br>Note: <cite>Gerontology</cite>
is a previous title to <cite>Gerontology &
Geriatrics</cite>. The volumes under the current title,
<cite>Gerontology & Geriatrics</cite> will be publicly
released into the JSTOR archive in 2015.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.